The electronic spreadsheets have become an office standard ever since the first such computer programs became commercially available more than 20 years ago. And with its popularity there has become a need for spreadsheet training to keep employees up to date with their knowledge and skills or using it.

A winning spreadsheet could make you a fortune. If you could effectively identify what many people want and are willing to pay for, and can make your spreadsheet easily accessible, you could be cashing checks for the rest of your life.

A spreadsheet on paper is a table of rows and columns generally used in accounting. An electronic spreadsheet, like Microsoft Excel, is a table of rows and columns that can contain data items or formulas, and is stored as a computer document. The data items can be numbers, words, paragraphs, dates, money values and number formulas among other things. The power of an electronic spreadsheet is its ability to calculate, manipulate and display data based on entries in the table.